Territoriality, Ethnicity, and Administrative and Cultural Borders: The Komi-Izhemtsy (Izvataz) and Komi-Permyak as the “Other” Komi
[Territorial’nost’, etnichnost’, administrativnye i kul’turnye granitsy: komi-izhemtsy (iz’vatas) i komi-permiaki kak “drugie” komi]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 12.01.2016
Accepted: 16.06.2016
About author(s)
Yuri Shabaev | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0867-4662 | shabaev@mail.illhkomisc.ru | Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Science Center (26 Kommunisticheskaya Str., Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, 167982, Russia)
Kirill Istomin | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6599-4945 | kistomin@naver.com | Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi Science Center (26 Kommunisticheskaya Str., Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, 167982, Russia)
Keywords
Komi, Komi-Permyak, Komi-Izhemtsy, identity, territoriality
Abstract
The article discusses the attempts at ethnicization of territorial identities that took place in the regions inhabited by the Komi. The Komi-Zyrian and Komi-Permyak share the same ethnonym (Komi), and some linguists consider the Komi-Zyrian and Komi-Permyak languages to be the two main varieties of the single Komi language. Yet, it is an acknowledged fact that, during the twentieth century, a distinct Komi-Permyak identity was shaped. There were further attempts to develop a separate identity of Izhemtsy for the Pechora area Komi; however, they were less successful.
Funding Information
This research was supported by the ERA.Net RUS Plus Programme [grant no. 189] (CORUNO)
Citation
Shabaev, Y.P., and K.V. Istomin. 2017. Territorial’nost’, etnichnost’, administrativnye i kul’turnye granitsy: komi-izhemtsy (iz’vatas) i komi-permiaki kak “drugie” komi [Territoriality, Ethnicity, and Administrative and Cultural Borders: The Komi-Izhemtsy (Izvataz) and Komi-Permyak as the “Other” Komi]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 4: 99-114
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